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Armeria maritima, the thrift, sea thrift or sea pink, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. It is a compact evergreen perennial which grows in low clumps and sends up long stems that support globes of bright pink flowers. In some cases purple, white or red flowers also occur.
Alyxia buxifolia has a drupe type fruit that is orange to red in colour when ripe. [5] [13] It is a small, ellipsoid shaped fruit ranging from 0.4 cm to 0.8 cm in diameter and 0.5 cm to 0.7 cm in length. [6] [5] It is typically one seeded. [15] Generally, there are only one or two fruits produced per flower. [15] The fruits are toxic to humans. [2]
They are dark green in color and leathery in texture. They die away by fall, when the bulb produces a tall, narrow raceme of flowers. This inflorescence can reach 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in) in height. [5] [7] The flower is about 1.5 cm (0.59 in) wide and has six tepals each with a dark stripe down the middle. The tepals are white ...
It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 7–25 m tall. The leaves are narrow obovate, 20–40 cm in length and 10–20 cm in width. Fruit produced as mentioned earlier, is otherwise aptly known as the Box Fruit, due to distinct square like diagonals jutting out from the cross section of the fruit, given its semi spherical shape form from stem altering to a subpyramidal shape at its base.
The fruits of the sea grape may be eaten raw, cooked into jellies and jams, or fermented into sea grape wine. [8] The leaves of the sea grape can be made into a tea and honey bees can make a certain type of honey with the nectar of the sea grape flowers. In other places native to sea grapes, various parts of the plant are used for medicinal ...
The stigma is light red, up to 9 centimetres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in length, ovary is pink, 1.5–2 centimetres (2 ⁄ 3 – 5 ⁄ 6 in) in length, with the skin of the ovary covered in white silky hair at 1mm long. Seeds are numerous, long, ovoid, black or gray in colour and packed in white cotton.
Carpobrotus chilensis is a species of edible succulent plant known by the common name sea fig. It grows on coastal sand dunes and bluffs and is used as an ornamental plant . However, along with its relative C. edulis , it has invaded sections of the California coast at the expense of native vegetation, and is subject to control efforts.
Some of the flowers may be solitary, while some are borne in inflorescences in the form of lax cymes, borne terminally or in the axils of upper leaves. The calyx has five lobes fitting loosely round the base of the corolla. The tube is short and campanulate, with an annular, crenulate disk inside at the base.